Section 1: The development of the discipline of public health
1.1:The scope and concerns of public health, Roger Detels and Chorh Chuan Tan
1.2:The history and development of public health in developed countries, Simon Szreter
1.3:Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease, Nathan D. Wong
1.4:Public health priorities in countries undergoing economic transition: the middle-income countries, Stephen Tollman and Jessica Price
1.5:Globalization, Kelley Lee
Section 2: Determinants of health and disease
2.1:Determinants of health: overview, Matthew Fisher, Belinda Townsend, Patrick Harris, Ashley Schram, and Fran Baum
2.2:Politics of public health, Kaitlyn B. McBride and Linda Rosenstock
2.3:Poverty, justice, and health, Ronald Labonté, Frances Baum, and David Sanders
2.4:Socioeconomic inequalities in health in high-income countries: the facts and the options, Frank J. van Lenthe and Johan P. Mackenbach
2.5:Reducing health inequalities in developing countries, Paulo M. Buss, Romulo Paes-Souza, and Mauricio Barreto
2.6:Genomics and public health, Veron Ramsuran and Tulio de Oliveira
2.7:Water and sanitation, Thomas Clasen
2.8:Food and nutrition, Roger Shrimpton, David Sanders, and Anne Marie Thow
2.9:Climate change and human health, Alistair Woodward and Alex Macmillan
2.10:Behavioural determinants of health and disease, Lawrence W. Green, Kristin S. Hoeft, and Robert A. Hiatt
2.11:How access to health care affects population health, Yvonne Inall, Rachel Lamdin Hunter, Stephen Leeder, and Angela Beaton
Section 3: Public health policies, law, and ethics
3.1:Leadership in public health, Kevin A. Fenton
3.2:Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health, Nancy Kass, Amy Paul, and Andrew Siegel
3.3:The right to health supports global public health, Carmel Williams, Alison Blaiklock, and Paul Hunt
3.4:Law and the public's health, Lawrence O. Gostin
3.5:Health policy in developing countries, Thein T Htay, Yu Mon Saw, James Levinson, SM Kadri, Ailbhe Helen Brady, Cecilia S. Acquin, and Aung Soe Htet
3.6:Public health policy in developed countries, John Powles and Hebe Gouda
Section 4: Information systems and sources of intelligence
4.1:Information systems in support of public health in high-income countries, Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa and Liam Smeeth
4.2:Community diagnosis and health information systems in low- and middle-income countries, Zunyou Wu and Jennifer McGoogan
4.3:New communication technologies, social media, and public health, Patrick S Sullivan, Aaron J Siegler, and Lisa Hightow-Weidman
Section 5: Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
5.1:Epidemiology: the foundation of public health, Roger Detels
5.2:Cross-sectional studies, Manolis Kogevinas and Leda Chatzi
5.3:Principles of outbreak investigation, Sopon Iamsirithaworn, Panithee Thammawijaya, and Kumnuan Ungchusak
5.4:Case-control studies, Noel S. Weiss
5.5:Cohort studies, Alvaro Muñoz and F. Javier Nieto
5.6:Qualitative research imagination, Jennie Popay and Fran Baum
5.7:Methodological issues in the design and analysis of cluster randomised trials, Kathy J Baisley, Richard J Hayes, and Lawrence H Moulton
5.8:Community intervention trials in high-income countries, John W. Farquhar and Lawrence W. Green
5.9:Natural and quasi experiments, Peter Craig
5.10:Clinical epidemiology, Fiona F Stanaway, Naomi Noguchi, Clement Loy, Sharon Reid, and Jonathan C. Craig
5.11:Validity and bias in epidemiological research, Sander Greenland and Tyler J. VanderWeele
5.12:Causation and causal inference, Katherine J. Hoggatt, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Sander Greenland
5.13:Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, Nandi Siegfried and Lawrence Mbuagbaw
5.14:Statistical methods, Gail Williams
5.15:Measuring the health of populations: the Global Burden of Disease study methods, Theo Vos and Christopher J.L. Murray
5.16:Mathematical models of transmission and control of infectious agents, Alex Welte and Cari van Schalkwyk
5.17:Public health surveillance, Nguyen Tran Hien, James W. Buehler, and Ann Marie Kimball
5.18:Life course epidemiology and analysis, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, Alexandra M. Binder, and Lindsay C. Kobayashi
Section 6: Social science techniques
6.1:Sociology and psychology in public health, Stella R. Quah
6.2:Sexuality and public healh, Richard Parker, Jonathan Garcia, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Marni Sommer, and Patrick Wilson
6.3:Demography and public health, Emily Grundy and Michael Murphy
6.4:Health promotion, health education, and the public's health, Simon Carroll and Marcia Hills
6.5:Development and evaluation of complex multicomponent interventions in public health, Rona Campbell and Chris Bonell
6.6:Economic appraisal in public health care: assessing efficiency and equity, David Parkin, Stephen Morris, and Nancy Devlin
6.7:Behavioral economics and health, Alison Buttenheim and Harsha Thirumurthy
6.8:Governance and management of public health programmes, Zhiyuan Hou and Na He
6.9:Implementation Science and translational public health, Wafaa M. El-Sadr, Judith Wasserheit, Bryan Wiener, Andrea Howard, Catherine Hankins, Patricia J. Culligan, and Katherine Harripersaud
Section 7: Environmental and occupational health sciences
7.1:Environmental health methods, Chien-Jen Chen and San-Lin You
7.2:Radiation and public health, Leeka Kheifets, Adele Green, and Richard Wakeford
7.3:Occupational health, David Koh and Wee Hoe Gan
7.4:Toxicology and environmental risk analysis, David Koh and Ro-Ting Lin
7.5:Risk perception and communication, Baruch Fischhoff and Tamar Krishnamurti
7.6:Urbanization and health, Jason Corburn
Section 8: Major health problems
8.1:Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease, Nathan D. Wong and Wenjun Fan
8.2:Cancer epidemiology and public health, Zuo-Feng Zhang, Paolo Boffetta, Alfred I. Neugut, and Carlo La Vecchia
8.3:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, Craig M. Riley, Jessica Bon, and Alison Morris
8.4:Obesity, Anna Peeters and Tim Lobstein
8.5:Physical activity and public health, Nyssa T. Hadgraft, Neville Owen, and Paddy C. Dempsey
8.6:Diabetes Mellitus, Farah Naz Khan, Nida Izhar Shaikh, K.M. Venkat Narayan, and Mohammed K. Ali
8.7:Public mental health and suicide, Danuta Wasserman and Kristian Wahlbeck
8.8:Dental public health, Amira S. Mohamed and Peter G. Robinson
8.9:Musculoskeletal disorders, Lope H. Barrero
8.10:Neurological diseases, epidemiology, and public health, Walter A. Kukull, Kumeren Govender, and James Bowen
8.11:Infectious diseases and prions, Davidson H. Hamer, Amira Khan, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
8.12:Sexually transmitted infections, N. Kojima and J.D. Klausner
8.13:Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Urisha Singh, Cheryl Baxter, and Salim S. Abdool Karim
8.14:Tuberculosis, Roxana Rustomjee
8.15:Malaria, Frank Baiden, Keziah L. Malm, and Fred Binka
8.16:Viral alcoholic and fatty liver diseases, Ehud Zigmond and Daniel Shouval
8.17:Emerging and re-emerging infections, David L. Heymann and Vernon J. M. Lee
8.18:Bioterrorism, Peter Katona
8.19:Genetic epidemiology, Elizabeth H. Young and Manjinder S. Sandhu
Section 9: Prevention and control of public health hazards
9.1:Tobacco, Tai Hing Lam and Sai Yin Ho
9.2:Substance use and misuse: considerations on global public health, Giang Le Minh and Steve Shoptaw
9.3:Alcohol, Robin Room
9.4:Injury prevention and control: the public health approach, Corinne Peek-Asa and Adnan A. Hyder
9.5:Interpersonal violence, Rachel Jewkes
9.6:Collective violence: war, Barry S. Levy
Section 10: Public health needs of population groups
10.1:The changing family, Ann Evans and Gavin W. Jones
10.2:Women, men, and health, Diane Cooper
10.3:Child health, Tyler Vaivada, Amira Khan, Omar Irfan, and Zulfiqar Bhutta
10.4:Adolescent health, George Patton, Peter Azzopardi, Natasha Kaoma, Farnaz Sabet, and Susan Sawyer
10.5:Intersectional and social epidemiology approaches to understanding the Influence of race, ethnicity, and caste on global public health, Jennifer Beard, Nafisa Halim, Salma M. Abdalla, and Sandro Galea
10.6:The health of Indigenous peoples, Papaarangi Reid, Donna Cormack, Sarah-Jane Paine, Rhys Jones, Elana Curtis, and Matire Harwood
10.7:People with disabilities, Anne Kavanagh, Marissa Shields, and Alex Devine
10.8:Health of older people, Samir K. Sinha and Brittany Ellis
10.9:Forced migrants and other displaced populations, Catherine R. Bateman Steel and Anthony B. Zwi
10.10:Prisoners: a wicked problem for public health, Tony G. Butler and Peter W. Schofield
Section 11: Public health functions
11.1:Health needs assessment, Michael P. Kelly, Jane E. Powell, and Natalie Bartle
11.2:The political economy of non-communicable diseases: lessons for prevention, Anne Marie Thow, Raphael Lencucha, and K Srinath Reddy
11.3:Immunisation and vaccination, Eleonora A.M.L. Mutsaerts and Shabir A. Madhi
11.4:Principles of infectious disease control, Robert J. Kim-Farley
11.5:Medical screening: theories, methods and effectiveness, Tang Jin-ling and Li Li-ming
11.6:The practice of environmental health in an era of sustainable development, Yasmin E.R. von Schirnding and Lynn R. Goldman
11.7:Strategies and structures for public health interventions, Sian Griffiths and Kevin A. Fenton
11.8:Strategies for health services, Chien Earn Lee and Fran Baum
11.9:Training of public health professionals in developing countries, San Hone and Roger Detels
11.10:Transformative learning for health professional in the 21st century for the future health workforce, Wanicha Chuenkongkaew and Suwit Wibulpolprasert
11.11:Humanitarian emergencies, Craig Spencer and Les Roberts
11.12:Principles of public health emergency response for acute environmental, chemical, and radiation incidents, Virginia Murray, Thomas Waite, and Paul Sutton
11.13:Private support of public health, Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Roger Detels
11.14:Global health in the era of sustainable development, Fiona Fleck